hey guys!! i have a htc diamond which doesnt switch on now. the thing is i had a busy day and the phone battery got dead so i removed the battery and kept it separately for a day. then on the next day i kept it for charging and it wasnt getting charged. when i gave it to the service centre they told it cant get fixed. but i find it hard to digest. does anyone know what to do? thanks!

mhillan guevarra, 13 Jan 2010i have this phone f0r 5 months n0w but the language is italian. can anyone tell me how to chan... moreyou have to flash ROM WWE, thats the english version you can find good roms at xda-developers. but first you have to hard-spl it so you can't brick the phone.

Hi I am vicky from ludhiana and i by the HTC hand set of Touch diamond, but i am facing the problem that its battery back up is very short, i want to change the battery. battery of 900 maH(3.7v). so u r requested to please change the battery as soon as possible. pls reply on my mail ID. vky_001@rediffmail.com. I want to more back up battery.

krs, 06 Jan 2010I have some problems with the power button, but other than that I'm happy with it. The ROM 2.0... morewhere did you download the 2.03??? PLEASE SOMEONE ANSWER ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

N5700xpressmusic, 06 May 2008This is g0od f0ne,but i never saw a htc brand f0ne in the phil,0nly s0ny,m0t0,n0kia and lg.but... morei have this phone f0r 5 months n0w but the language is italian. can anyone tell me how to change the language? from italian to english. where can i find it? tnx. i'm from philippines.

mirela, 07 Jan 2010hello...i want to buy htc diamond...and i want to hear some oppinion about it.please if exist ... moreBeware, the HTC Dimond is junk. I know alot of people that got these and no one is satisfied. I love technology but this phone is a joke.

hello...i want to buy htc diamond...and i want to hear some oppinion about it.please if exist somebody to know about this phone..i give my hotmail id to write me : mirelutza_2005_10@hotmail.com
i wait for your oppinion:)...and i really interest about the battery:).10q

- My phone came with a 1340mAh battery and the specs here on GSM Arena say it comes with a 900mAh one so I'm guessing HTC might have considered a higher capacity battery and I'm luck my device came with one!

* Complains about hit the power button and unlocking the phone while it's in your pocked!

- Well I really don't like to press the power button all the time to lock/unlock the phone.

So I press and hold the end call button and the phone locks in a way that you have to touch the screen where it says unlock and then touch again in a different area where it says touch here to unlock. It's a much safer way to lock the phone and accidentally unlocks are very difficulto to hapen.

On a side note if you don't use TouchFlo interface if you use regular today screen you can put the lock device option there so you don't need to press and hold the end call button. It's up to you.

* Complains about your face touching the screen and giving commands while answering a call.

- When you put the Diamond to your ear, the display automatically switches off to avoid accidental presses due to a embedded light sensor so if your phone is not doing this it might have a problem.

* Complains about the phone being slow.

- Yes that's true. it's not a fast device and if you do open several softwares together it will work really slow and might even crash. So keep in mind that even though it might be considered a small computer it has limitations, it's not a desktop computer.

I wish it was better but it isn't and if you do need a real fast device who can run dozens of softwares there are some options on the market but the Diamond is not one.

It does run a couple of softwares at the same time though with very little trouble, which I belive is more than what a reguler user needs.

I have some problems with the power button, but other than that I'm happy with it. The ROM 2.03 with the radio 1.17 helped the battery drain issue. It works for me for more than a year. Very handsome unit.

ive had this phone for over a year, at first i thought it was good but befor long i started to dislike it, every once and a while when the phone was in my pcoket the power button would be hit and for some reason the first thing the phone would do is start caling people in my resent calls list. when talking on the phone if you forgot to turn the screen off your face would start opening up lots of programs. the web brouser was very slow and often could not load pages causein the phone to freez.
even switching through pages like home, weather, setings, and favorites was slow. overall i had a bad experiance with this phone i have since switched to a 3gs 16gig iphone and there is no comparison

I have great experience with this phone (diamond).
Fully customizable.
But there is one problem, the battery capacity is too small and dries quickly when used to access the internet (browsing, chatting). Anyone can give help/advice with diamond battery problem?

I have had this phone for over a year and have a love/hate relationship with it.

This phone works find for 30% of the time and then starts to behave stupidly/unreliably when it begins to run low on memory (more than 50% of the program memory has to be kept free). For example, I have been browsing and been unable to answer an incoming call because the phone has frozen up. While it had done this it buffered up all my keystrokes and executed them once it had come back to life and proceed to terminate the phone call. This was the final straw! Basically this phone will let you done when you need it the most, either by running out of battery or doing nothing at all (so I also carry my old Nokia N95). Please don't purchase this phone.

HTC are very good at putting in the latest technology for WinMo phones. But the TouchFlo UI is a very nice but very, very simplistic attempt to cover up the arkwardness of the Windows Mobile OS. Compare this to Samsung TouchWiz UI, Samsung's effort is truly superb and I am referring to their implementation on the original i900 Omnia phone. This is the phone I am now using and has been working flawlessly, even when running two different browsers, writing note and running a Java browser too, no crashes, no slowdowns, it just works.

I miss two features from the HTC Touch Diamond phone, the wheel button that lets you zoom in and out and the higher resolution of the screen.

I am looking forward to moving onto the Samsung i8000 phone and will be avoiding the WinMo HTC phones.

Also, it would be really useful if GSM Arena did long term tests of phones as well as rating the specification.

I bought the Diamond a week ago and so far it's doing great, not the best HTC phone I know but still very good, I like the size it's quite small and easy to handle.

Intalled GPS software Nav N Go iGO 8 and it works perfectly, it works faster than my car GPS! The skype mobile 3.0 also works fine and I can call people who are online on skype and saves me some money!

Battery is decent 4 to 5 days and I do use it a lot, wi-fi on almost all the time, I go on the web, check e-mails and make lots of calls everyday!

People do complain about the speed a lot and it's not a fast windows mobile device, I've seen faster devices but I don't think it's slow enough to be a problem the speed on mine at least is reasonable and if you consider what this phone can do and compare it to it's size and portability I think the speed is amazing!

Touch screen is good and quite sensitive for a resistive screen but even with the HTC software you will eventually need to interact with the windows mobile and when doing so the use of a stylus pen is sometimes unavoidable even if you have small fingers, hence the fact the phone comes with a stylus and a slot for it, which is magnetic by the way, very cool!

Well I'll come back and make more comments when I have more time with the device, these opinions above are not final!

I tried putting on Windows mobile 6.5 on it today but I couldn't. I don't know why.. I have the bootloader on which makes ROM's that are third parties go in... But when I'm putting on the ROM it stays at 0% all the time.. ;/